Slat-wiper for conveyers.



No. 676,983. Patented lune 25, |901. B. GULDSMITH.

SLAT WIPER FOB CONVEYERS.

(Application led Feb. 26, 1901.).

(No Model.)

In imm um-1 lll-num y lUNirnn artnr rrrcn.

BERTI-IOLD GOLDSMITH,`OF ELWOOD, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN TIN PLATE COMPANY, vOF SAME PLACE AND NEI/V YORK, N. Y.

SLAT-WIPER FOR CONVEYERS.

SBEGIFXCATEON forming part of Letters Patent No. 676,983, dated June 25, 1901.

Application filed February 26, 19.01. Serial. No. 48,946. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: The carrying-off table to which my inven- Be it known that I, BERTHOLD GOLDSMITH, tion is applied is shown and described in the a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Elapplication, Serial No. 33,989, of Charles WV. wood, in the county of Madison and State of Bennett, tiled October 22, 1900, and as the 55 5 Indiana, have invented certain new and usesame, generally speaking, is not the subjectful Improvements in Slat-Wipers for Conveymatter of my present invention, it will not be ers, of which the following is a specification. described in detail, but only incidentally in Myinvention is especially designed for use describing said invention. As in the said with the conveyers or carrying-off tables uponV Bennett application, the chain l of the car- 6o ro which tinned sheets are deposited as they rier-belt runs oversprocket-wheels or pulleys come from the tinning-machine. 2 and 3 and thence over the iioor 4 of the ta- In the operation of tinning and branning ble. Just above the table are the slats 5, plates they are delivered from the tinningwhich are carried by the rods 6 from a cross machines ontoa slatted table or conveyer and bar 7, forming part of the frame of the ma 65 I5 thence conveyed int-o the branning-macbine chine. Cross-bars S, connecting the carrierproper. During this operation grease or oil chains l, pass between the iioor 4 of the table from the oil-pot of the tinning-machine is deand the slats 5, and upon said cross-bars S posited upon the slats of the carrier at points are the hooks or fingers 9, by which the tinned where the plates rest thereon. sheets are drawn along the carrying-off table 7o 'zo The object ot' my said invention is to proor conveyer. Secured to the sides of these vide suitable wipers, attached to the fingers hooks or ngers are brackets l0, to which are of the carrier, which will remove this grease secured angle pieces ll, having outturned as it is deposited, thus preventing succeeding feet thereon, and to these feet pieces of wipsheets from becoming fouled with cold grease, ing fabric l2 are secured, as shown, as by 75 25 which is diflicult to remove in the subsequent bolts 13. These angle-pieces are slotted and operation of cleaning. This object is accomare secured to the brackets 10 by bolts 14, plished bythe means which will be hereinafand by this means they are `adjustable up and ter more particularly describedqand claimed. down, as may be desired. When properly Referring to the accompanying drawings, adj listed, the wiping fabric l2 rests upon the 8o 3o which are made a part hereof, and on which slats 5 at the points where the tinned sheets similar reference characters indicate similar come in contact therewith, so that as the conparts, Figure l is a top or plan View of a porveyer-chains,with their bars and fingers, pass tion of a carrying-off table or conveyer, the along these slats at the bearing-points are carrier ngers or hooks of which are provided wiped each time fingers pass, with the result 85 55 with wipers constructed and arranged in acthat the slats are kept clean and the tinned cordance with my said invention; Fig. 2, a sheets prevented from being fouled, as above vertical sectional view thereof, taken at the stated.

dotted line 2 2 in Fig. 1, but seen as when the Having thus fully described my said invenends of the machine arev reversed; Fig. 3, a tion, what I claim as new, and desire to secure 9o 4o transverse sectional view through the maby LettersPatent, is-

chine, on an enlarged scale, as seen when lookl. The combination, with the carrying-off ing in the direction indicated by the arrows table for a tinning-machine provided with from the dotted line 3 3 in Fig. 2, showing slats for receiving the tinned plates, of asuitthe wiper in elevation; Fig. 4, a detail secable carrier for said plates, and wipers se- 95 45 tional view through one of the Wipers as seen cured to the carrier and adapted to come in when looking in the direction indicated by the contact with the slats and thus remove grease arrows from the dotted line-4 4 in Fig. 5, and and foulness therefrom, whereby the sheets Fig. 5 a horizontal sectional view through one or plates passing over the table are prevented of the wipers as seen when looking in the difrom being fouled, substantially as set forth. roo

5o rection indicated by the arrows from the dot- 2. The combination of a carrying-oit table ted line 5 5 in Fig. 4. embodying suitable slats, carriers by which the articles are moved over said slats, and adjustable Wipers secured to said carriers, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. The combination, of a carrying-off table for tinning-maehines having slats between which the carriers Which receive the tinned plates pass, said carriers embodying hooks or fingers extending up between said slats, brackets secured to the sides of said hooks or fingers, and Wipers adj nstably secured to said brackets above and adapted to come in contact With said slats.

4. The combination, in a carrying-off table for tinning-machines having slats toreceive the tinned plates, of traveling carriers the cross-bars whereof pass below1 said slats,hooks or lingers extending up from said cross-bars to above said slats to catch and carry the plates, and Wipers secured to said hooks-or lingers and arranged to pass over and come in contact with said slats, whereby grease and fonlness which may accumulate thereon is removed and the plates passing over the table prevented from being fouled, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, at Elwood, Indiana, this 19th day of February, A. D. 1901.

BERTI-IOLD GOLDSMITH, [Ls] Witnesses:

H. K. BAKER, ARTHUR M. WYLIE. 

